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NASA’s Juno spacecraft takes closest images of Europa for 20 years New Scientist
Why the Florida Fantasy Withstands Reality The Atlantic (Resilc)
A broken insurance market threatens Florida and its star governor FT (DL)
The New Math of Wrinkling Qanta Magazine
The utopian machine Aeon
#COVID19
New drug has potential to turn SARS-CoV-2 virus against itself Phys.org (MK)
The Pandemic’s Legacy Is Already Clear The Atlantic
Impaired immune response drives age-dependent severity of COVID-19 JEM (MK)
In case you missed it, some bombshell reporting today revealed that Quebec essentially outsourced our pandemic response to McKinsey. An american consulting firm that was also working for pfizer. Conflict of interest much?https://t.co/8iXzukBAgU
— Dr. Lisa Iannattone (@lisa_iannattone) October 1, 2022
China?
China drops the gauntlet on NSA’s serial cyberattacks Asia Times (KW)
The Koreas
North Korea fires fourth missile in a week as South flexes military muscle Reuters
Fukushima: Novel Fixes Fail, Waste Dumping Threatens Pacific Ocean CounterPunch
Myanmar
OPINION – 6 reasons US is not really supporting Myanmar’s democratic resistance Anadolu Agency
Thai Court Rules Suspended PM Prayut Can Resume Office Barron’s
India, Brazil Help Stop Chinese Roadblock to AUKUS Supply of N-Powered Submarines to Australia The Wire
India
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Arming Armenia: India to export missiles, rockets and ammunition The Economic Times
Bangladesh’s Hilsa Fish Diplomacy The Diplomat
Syraqistan
Iran vows to strike back if US destroys more of its drones over Iraq Al-Monitor
Iraq PM condemns Iran attacks on Kurdistan, calls on forces to maintain security Arab News
Iran arrests foreign nationals linked to Mahsa Amini protests France24
Decoding the Pentagon’s online war against Iran The Cradle
* * * Lebanon to shift to new official lira-to-dollar exchange rate Al-Monitor
Somalia: Turkey’s Bayraktar TB2 drones join offensive against al-Shabab Middle East Eye
Israel Election: The War in Ukraine Is Barely Mentioned in the Battle for Russian-speaking Voters Haaretz
Burkina Faso coup: Gunshots in capital and roads blocked BBC
Montenegro parliament rejects president’s request to dissolve parliament Anadolu Agency
European Disunion
Minister: Greece can defend islands despite Turkey’s threats ABC News
Groundhog Day: It’s another Bulgarian election Politico
Swiss electricity savings drive slow out of the blocks SwissInfo
Revealed: the secret British plan to keep Italy’s communists from power The Guardian
Old Blighty
Kwasi Kwarteng ‘attended champagne party with financiers on mini-budget day’ The Guardian (KW)
Two senior Truss aides were paid through Mark Fullbrook’s lobbying firm The Sunday Times
UK Cost-of-living Protests As Tories Defend Contentious Tax-cut Plans Barron’s
What is Nigel Farage doing in Australia? The Saturday Paper
Apropos of nothing, US intel wants to improve low-dose radiation detection The Register
New Not-So-Cold War
Russia withdraws its troops from a key city encircled by Ukrainian forces NPR
Russia vetoes Security Council resolution condemning attempted annexation of Ukraine regions UN News
Russia Detains Head of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant Time
Attacks Expose Vulnerability of European Infrastructure Der Spiegel (Resilc)
Deliveries of Russian gas via Austria suspended, Gazprom seeks to resolve issue TASS
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‘Baltic friends’ would welcome Ukraine’s accession to NATO ERR
Parliament rejects unilateral Swiss sanctions SwissInfo
* * * Putin annexations mean US-Russian talks more critical than ever Responsible Statecraft (Resilc)
The Narrative That This War Was “Unprovoked” Prevents Peace Caitlin Johnstone
How Russians living in Ukraine are being turned into illegal immigrants DW
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Jail warden and brother charged in roadside shooting of Mexican migrants WaPo
2022
Democrats worry polls showing them as Senate favorites are wrong The Hill
What all that stealing says about America Yahoo (KW)
State Governments Are Colluding With Billionaires to Shield Their Wealth From Taxation Jacobin
2024
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Ex-eBay execs jailed for cyberstalking web critics The Register
The Bezzle
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Class Warfare
Train strike: Worst rail disruption of year as workers walk out BBC
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